Although mental disorders are common among children, we know little about their long term effects on child outcomes …. This paper examines U.S. and Canadian children with symptoms of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), depression … representative samples of children from both countries. Second, we focus on "screeners" that were administered to all children in our …

limit investments in some children's education so that they will not find it optimal to migrate when they reach maturity … the family farm or provide care and assistance around the house). However, children themselves may prefer to migrate when …. Because awareness of these high-paying, high education, urban jobs was limited at baseline, the intervention increased the …

We estimate production functions for cognition and health for children aged 1-12 in India, where over 70 million … children aged 0-5 are at risk of developmental deficits. The inputs into the production functions include parental background … development …

Although previous research has not always found that boys and girls are treated differently in rural India, son …

surviving children. Studies have found substantial variability across countries in the negative impacts of orphanhood on child … health and education. One hypothesis for this variability is the resilience of the extended family network in some countries …

two separate occupation-based skill measures and find that these measures are associated with ASD incidence among children …